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Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1928, Page 2

We fools buy tilings we can’t afford, And sneer at old-time ways; When naught remains for bed and board "We fall on evil days. But commonsense through all survives, When had colds we endure, We save a coin to save our lives With Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.

It is obviously more advantageous that land on the outskirts of a city or a borough should be profitably employed in farms or farmlets than that, by onerous taxation, it should be forced from productive ownership into the hands of those who might be able to hold it In idleness until the growth of urban population made their speculation profitable. Failing a complete revision of boundaries between urban and rural lands, it seems that some method of differential rating offers the only solution of the problem. The difficulties of applying the principle are very great, but the Afinister should l>e encouraged to proceed with the reform, even if he finds it must be brought into operation piecemeal by special prescriptions to meet the circumstances of every district where it occurs.—“ New Zealand Herald.”

The best tea, the best list of cash prizes. Enter for the Big Raven Tea competition. No entrance fee. Particulars in each packet of Raven Tea. Start collecting to-day.—Acjyt.